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LipSense Review

Lip color that doesn’t come off on my wine glass? Hmmm...

By Robyn RussoPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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I’m not really a lipstick girl. I love the look of lipstick, but in reality I rub my lips together a lot, drink liquids often, and have very dry lips prone to cracking, which a lot of lipstick formulas aggravate. Yet, when a mom acquaintance touted the long lasting wear of LipSense by SeneGence that she’d started to sell, my interest piqued. I wanted to be supportive, keep my wineglasses and coffee cups pristine, and possibly become one of those females who always looked fresh.

The colors I like best on my olive complexion are berry and bright red; however, these bold colors also tend to stain, bleed, and just end up all over everything far more often than softer ones. I was hoping LipSense could solve that.

How it works:

Apply three thin layers of the Long Lasting Liquid Lip Color, pausing about ten seconds between each application. Apply a top coat of Moisturizing Gloss in matte or glossy if desired. Without the Gloss, the color has more of a lip stain look and feel to it, which could be the goal of the wearer. At night, remove the color with a nourishing balm called Ooops! Remover and a tissue. All of these products come from LipSense. You can buy them individually or as a package deal, which is ever-so-slightly cheaper. If you are buying the product for the first time, I’d recommend getting all three, then as needed after that. The Ooops! Remover can be used to clean up the lip line during application. I’m telling you, only the thinnest possible layers on the color. More is way too much with this product.

What I love:

These highly pigmented colors are easy to apply. Because it’s a gloss-like consistency that needs to be spread in the thinnest possible layers, it goes on easier than a wax-based product.

The long lasting power. This stuff does not come off on drinking glasses. It does not smudge around my mouth or onto my teeth. I can wear it to work and social events with ease. When I take pictures at events, I don’t have to check my lipstick first. I can rest assured my mouth looks the same as when I first put on the lipstick. This stuff does not move without some elbow grease!

Not so much:

It loses that fresh feel rather quickly. The gloss that you can put over it needs to be reapplied if you’re like me and enjoy that “fresh” feel of lipstick. I tend to rub my lips together a lot so ultimately I’m rubbing the hell out of the gloss. I looked fresh but I didn't feel fresh. This aspect is totally a personal preference but it's part of the freshness package I was originally hoping the product would provide.

The burning sensation when you apply each layer of color is worrisome. I was not forewarned about this and I thought I was having an allergic reaction. I’m not sure what causes a burning sensation, but it’s more than a “tingle,” which is how it was first described to me when I panicked that my lips were about to burst into flames. This is a big reason why I will not use the product everyday. There’s only so far I’ll go into the “beauty is pain” mentality.

LipSense is the lipstick I save for special occasions when I need that constant put-together look like weddings, meetings, and banquets. It does it’s job—the color stays on and stays put so for my purposes, it’s earned its keep, but it did not cause me to change my mind on consistently wearing lipstick.

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Robyn Russo

Robyn ponders life and writes about it from Austin, TX. When you can't find her, she’s probably holed away with a great book and a bottle of wine. She’ll resurface when done.

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